The Great Salt Lake

A few days ago, I and Scott Smith took to the early morning, to photowalk at the Great Salt Lake. In the spirit of changing my blogging ways and trying to be a little more current with my photography blogging, I thought I would share one quick sample.

photo info: 1/80s, f/9.0, ISO 100 at 27mm(40mm in 35mm), Nikon D200

Even added a little photo info. The morning light was gorgeous, and it was a shear joy being in such a beautiful location at such a beautiful time. Having my camera in hand to capture some of the beauty was icing on the cake. As always hanging out with fellow photo geek Scott Smith was great (I suggest hitting the embedded link to see Scotts work!).

Becky and Josh Bridals

It has been a while since I have shared anything. Thought I would share a few favorite photos from Becky and Josh's bridals. Becky and Josh were fun to work with and I am greatful for the opportunity to shoot them;) Wedding photos will be coming soon!

Enjoy the photos from the amazing and cute couple!

Family Friends

I recently had the opportunity to capture family photos for the Cook family. It is always a pleasure to be able to do something friends. Airen the oldest daughter has modeled for me before. Really great people.

The day we picked to do the photos was extremely windy. We were up on the bench above Bountiful. Wind or no, the Cooks are an extremely busy family. The boys arrived just off of football practice. So we made due...

The whole family:

So here are some photos of the children from youngest to oldest:

I think the wind got the kids riled up so getting them to hold still was a chore. What to do, get photos of them running off some of that steam!

Waiting for the boys to get cleaned up allowed time to find acorns.

Wish I had hair like this:

So I said the boys play football, bet you would never guess from a face like this:

Airen is the oldest, I just love this photos of big sister getting a kiss. See how the wind is blowing Airen's hair?

Another one of those between shooting moments, mother-daughter time.

I didn't mention it, but for some of the last shots I had a lighting assistant, the wind would have taken away my light if not for this little guy on the right:

And not be out done by the boys, girl power!

One more of the entire family, I get a kick out of the youngest girls face.

And one without flash on that nice sunset.

Ballet

A while back I got to together with Scott O. Smith a photographer who I highly respect and admire. The shoot was to add ballet photos to add to our stock portfolios and at the same time give some awesome dance photos to the models and their mothers. Scott is just starting at the microstock game, while I have been fumbling through microstock since about the beginning of the year.



It may seem that many great portrait photos are not posed, but the true secret to good portraiture is the posing. To get those life like photos that seem unposed and look great the photographer must interact with the subject (Secret: almost all great portrait photography is posed). You are paying your photographer for more than to simply own expensive gear and snap photos. I digress, here is a behind the scenes of Scott posing the ballerinas.



I was very happy how the ballet leaping photos turned out (sorry can't remember the names of the moves)!





One side note, I found shooting into mirrors to be very difficult. It is hard to not get refelctions of unwanted objects in the photo (like the photographer and his lights). Well here are a few behind the scenes type photos (all posed), enjoy!









Scott, actually initiated this stock shoot. That means my turn next time and I am thinking music theme!